California Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Four districts, four different prosecutorial personalities - tech and securities in the north, entertainment and crypto in the center, the border in the south - and this firm’s Los Angeles office in the middle of it.
Netflix told the story. The defense was ours.
When Shonda Rhimes built Inventing Anna, the defense at its center was Todd Spodek’s - argued for the so-called fake heiress in a Manhattan courtroom long before Arian Moayed of Succession played him on screen. What 320 million hours of viewers watched is the method every client of this firm gets, in every federal district.
The record, dated and sourced.
The districts.
Four districts, four different games.
No state’s federal practice varies more by ZIP code. The Central District - Los Angeles - is the volume leader: wire fraud, crypto and investment schemes, healthcare fraud out of the clinic economy, and the entertainment-adjacent prosecutions that draw cameras. The Northern District prosecutes Silicon Valley: securities fraud, trade-secret theft, and founder cases where the line between vision and fraud is the whole trial - this firm’s home argument.
San Diego runs border volume with fast-track programs; the Eastern District works meth conspiracies and agricultural-program fraud. Every district shares the Ninth Circuit’s comparatively defense-friendly suppression and Bruen-era firearms law - which rewards counsel who litigate rather than process.
Federal defense lawyers in California, four districts, one standard.
California is four different prosecutions.
Los Angeles: the nation’s largest district and its loudest fraud docket. San Francisco and San Jose: the tech era’s defining trials - Theranos ran here. San Diego: border volume on fast-track timelines. Sacramento and Fresno: meth conspiracies and ag fraud. Same conduct, different courthouse, different outcome. Venue is often the first fight worth having - and most defendants never knew it was available.
What you’re actually up against.
Career prosecutors who run SEC, FTC, and state parallel proceedings alongside the criminal file - a two-front war that punishes defendants whose lawyers only see one front. The Ninth Circuit’s suppression and Second Amendment doctrine is the most defense-engaged in the country. It rewards lawyers who litigate. It does nothing for lawyers who process.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. Our Los Angeles office at 611 Wilshire makes the Central District a home court: same-day MDC visits, First Street appearances without a flight, and twenty-three years of LA courtrooms on the bench. And the founder-fraud argument - the line between vision and deception - is this firm’s signature. The country watched it work in the Sorokin trial. Netflix made a series out of it.
Every accepted case gets the whole bench. Coast to coast, one standard.
The clock is already running.
California investigations announce themselves - an SEC letter, a platform ban, agents at the startup’s door. Every one is the window opening. Call before you answer anyone. The consultation is free. It’s confidential. It’s answered 24/7 - 212 300 5196. The government has a head start. Stop giving it a bigger one.
Any district is home ground.
Federal procedure is national - the same rules, the same guidelines, the same DOJ playbook in California as everywhere else. The Los Angeles office at 611 Wilshire anchors the western practice - C.D. Cal. is a home district, and the other three are a short flight with the same team. Admission is handled by pro hac vice motion with local counsel where required, the client portal keeps every document and conversation in one place across any distance, and the person standing up in court is the lawyer you hired - not a referral.
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Todd A. Spodek is a second-generation trial lawyer whose defense of Anna Delvey became Netflix's Inventing Anna. He appears on Fox News and CNN as a legal analyst, authored "My Advice to Diddy" in The Spectator, and is quoted by the Associated Press when the biggest federal cases break. The record behind the profile: a complete acquittal in a $26M money-laundering trial, RICO charges carrying a 10-year minimum dismissed, and 6 months on a $12M Ponzi case.
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Who we are, how we work, and why clients nationwide trust us with their future - in under a minute.
Why this firm.
Five decades of federal courtrooms. Whatever the government has charged, this firm has defended it before.
No allegiance to U.S. Attorneys, agents, or agencies. The client is the only constituency.
Every district in the country, one client portal - documents, invoices, counsel, in real time.
We decline more federal matters than we accept - and every accepted case gets the whole bench.
The first 72 hours decide the next 72 weeks.
No interviews, no consents, no explaining, no deleting. The words said in hour zero are the exhibits at trial. Write down what was asked and by whom - then stop.
Privilege attaches, facts get mapped while memory is fresh, documents get preserved the right way, and nobody in your orbit talks to agents unrepresented again.
We contact the government as your counsel: target, subject, or witness gets confirmed, deadlines get calendared, and the defense - not the investigation - sets the tempo.
How your case unfolds.
THE FULL PROCESS →Risk-free, in person or by phone. Ask anything, for as long as it takes. Strategy starts the same day.
Subpoenaed inboxes and a drawn timeline - we engage prosecutors at the target-letter stage, where charging is still a choice.
Suppress the overbroad seizure, contest intended loss, redraw the timeline - and when trial is the advantage, intent gets tried on the whole inbox, not the excerpts.
On the record, on the wire.
Get ahead of the case.
Answered within 24 hours, guaranteed. Some stories are better told out loud -
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